- Paperback: 377 pages
- Publisher: New English Library (15 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340674733
- ISBN-13: 978-0340674734
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 429,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The hugely rich daughter of a mafia boss rebuilds Venice - in the Pacific. A century later, the daughter of Count Ryuchi slips out to the levels to play Lucifer's Dragon, a 3D trawl through the apocalypse. It's a virtual world - but the welter of carnage that's about to take place is all too real.
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'William Gibson meets Quentin Tarantino...'
NVPD cop Angeli falls for computer-junkie Karo while investigating a murder. His only help a very unofficial history of Santa Passionata, amphetamine addict, Mafia daughter and founder of newVenice. Drugs, techno, vampires and Vivaldi. Murder meets media manipulation in a tale a little more bitter and twisted than most...
NVPD cop Angeli falls for computer-junkie Karo while investigating a murder. His only help a very unofficial history of Santa Passionata, amphetamine addict, Mafia daughter and founder of newVenice. Drugs, techno, vampires and Vivaldi. Murder meets media manipulation in a tale a little more bitter and twisted than most...
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I came across this author purely by chance and in a very rash moment, ordered a copy. It then sat on my bookshelf gathering dust for a few months before I finally dragged it down, having nothing else to read. And was more than pleasantly surprised!!
Jon Courtenay Grimwood belongs to the same genre of first class SF writers that includes Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. His characters are well developed and the story progresses brilliantly, with the kind of attention to detail and plot twists that keep you turning the pages. This was a book I simply couldn't put down and then left me feeling empty once I had finished the final page.
All this from a work that was rated overall only 3 stars - so now I can't wait to get hold of his latest work which sounds even better than Lucifer's Dragon!
Format:Paperback
This has many interweaving plotlines and makes the future come to life. It combines nanotechnolgical advances with cyber piracy and the characters breathe from the page. It's set in a world where metaNationals rule, and the poor can have their supposed right to drexie boxes (matter compilers that produce nutritional but unappetising food)canceled. The rooftop charge near the end is especially enthralling and the description of the making of the Lucrezia statue is horrific.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read Pashazade, which I loved, so I thought I'd try something else by the same author. Lucifer's Dragon was a pretty different proposition, but still an exciting, roller coaster read.
There are similarities - Venice rebuilt in the middle of the Pacific is a main character, just as El Iskandria is in Pashazade; and Officer Angelli was a bit like Raf from Pashazade, but nowhere near as developed. But the thing I really love about Grimwood's writing is his strong female characters. In LD Passion is the scene-stealer - whether she's building the city as a young woman, or running a weird gang of misfits as an ancient vampire. In Pashazade, it's Zara who gives Raf a run for his money.
Don't get me wrong, this book is odd. And it's more of a thriller than a crime novel, but it would definitely spur me on to read another of Grimwood's novels.
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A new Gibson, not quite!
I'd read that Jon Courtenay Grimwood was supposed to be another Gibson or Stephenson, so I was looking forward to reading this "masterpiece". I was disappointed. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2007 by Bernard Smith
Absolutely atrocious
To be perfectly honest, for the first few dozen pages I thought this book was a rather clever parody of the second-rate imitations of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson that have... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2007 by A reader
Crude, depressing dross
This tedious novel seems to be an attempt to evoke the subtle style of William Gibson's classic "Neuromancer" series. It fails, badly. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2005
Mindless
Gratuitous graphic violence, pointless lists of designer brand names, random references to misunderstood popular science. The worst book I've read in a long time.
Published on 6 July 2001
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